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paroxytonic

paroxytonic adjective: of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable.

Adjective

paroxytonic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable

Origin of paroxytonic

Ultimately from Ancient Greek παροξύτονος (paroxútonos, “with an acute accent on the next to last syllable”)

Words formed from paroxytonic

Questions about paroxytonic

What does paroxytonic mean?
Paroxytonic means of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable.
What part of speech is paroxytonic?
Paroxytonic is an adjective.

Words near paroxytonic in the dictionary

  1. paroxysome
  2. paroxytone
  3. paroxytoned
  4. paroxytones
  5. paroxytonesis
  6. paroxytonic
  7. parp
  8. parped
  9. parpen
  10. parpend
  11. parpends

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